With the midterm elections just around the corner, it is a good time to ask: what does a school have to do with a free society? Franklin D. Roosevelt argued, “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” FDR recognized the danger of an uneducated society more than sixty years ago. A democracy that fails to educate its citizens eventually loses its freedom altogether. Schools that teach students to think critically and act knowledgeably are vital to democracy.

 

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

–Psalm 139: 13-14